Contentful

Security Engineer

Contentful

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: New York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $153,000 - $180,000 per year

Job Level

SeniorLead

Tech Stack

AWSCloudGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaScriptKubernetesPythonTCP/IPTerraform

About the role

  • Lead initiatives, drive cross-functional prioritization, and partner on execution to advance security efforts across the organization.
  • Proactively identify, prioritization, and lead complex security assessments and remediation for cloud-native applications, infrastructure, and vendor integrations to drive measurable risk reduction.
  • Support vulnerability management efforts while advancing the program by identifying systemic gaps, expanding coverage, automating workflows, and partnering with cross functional teams to prioritize and drive scalable remediation.
  • Identify deficiencies, architect, and build scalable security solutions to improve coverage, efficiency, and resilience across security disciplines.
  • Develop and maintain scalable hardening standards and monitoring mechanism, leading adoption and long term integration across the organization.
  • Lead and contribute to incident investigations by executing established processes, conducting independent analysis, and coordinating effective response and remediation efforts
  • Design and maintain robust detection and response capabilities for cloud and container environments.
  • Stay current on emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and attacker tactics, translating insights into actionable strategies.
  • Mentor and guide others, fostering a culture of security awareness and best practices.
  • Support security compliance maintenance through control ownership, automated maintenance, and enable technical teams by translating requirements into practical, actionable solutions.
  • Communicate complex and technical concepts clearly to leadership and stakeholders.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of security engineering, DevSecops, or equivalent experience
  • Expertise with AWS, GCP, and Cloudflare architecture, services, and security features
  • Design, implement, and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines by integrating automated security controls such as SAST, DAST, dependency vulnerability scanning, and secrets management.
  • Proven experience designing and implementing security architecture aligned with business and technical strategies across cloud and application environments.
  • Mastery in Python to build and maintain security tools.
  • Exposure to Javascript and Go with the ability to perform security code reviews.
  • Deep knowledge securing Kubernetes clusters and containers, including configuration and runtime protection.
  • Hands-on experience using Terraform and other infrastructure-as-code tools to maintain integrity in cloud environments.
  • Demonstrated success driving vulnerability management, threat modeling, and incident response at scale.
  • Proficiency with authentication and authorization protocols and mechanisms (OAuth, SAML, JWT, IAM) to secure identity and access management.
  • Strong foundational networking expertise including cloud networking architectures, OSI model, TCP/IP protocols, routing, and firewall concepts
  • Deep expertise in OWASP Top 10 and other application security frameworks, with proven success driving secure development practices and assessments.
  • Working knowledge of applying compliance frameworks controls including SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to influence security strategy across teams.
  • Clear and effective communication skills.
  • Ability to articulate security risks and tradeoffs to both technical and semi-technical audiences.
  • Practical experience integrating multiple systems through APIs and parsing, normalizing, and integrating complex datasets between integrated systems.
Benefits
  • Full-time employees receive Stock Options for the opportunity to share in the success of our company
  • Comprehensive healthcare package covering 100% of monthly health premiums for employees and 85% of costs for your dependents.
  • Fertility and family building benefits, including a lifetime reimbursable wallet to support your growing family.
  • Generous amount of paid time off, including vacation days, sick days, compassion days for loss, education days, and volunteer days
  • Company paid parental leave to care for and focus on your growing family
  • Personal annual education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career
  • Full range of virtual and in-person events, including workshops, guest speakers, and team activities
  • Annual wellbeing stipend to care for your physical, financial, or emotional health
  • Monthly communication stipend and phone hardware upgrade reimbursement.
  • New hire office equipment stipend for hybrid or distributed employees.

ATS Keywords

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Hard skills
security engineeringDevSecOpsAWSGCPCloudflareCI/CD pipelinesPythonJavaScriptGoKubernetes
Soft skills
problem-solvinginfluencecommunicationmentoringcollaborationleadershipsecurity awarenessanalysisprioritizationstrategic thinking
Certifications
SOC 2ISO 27001
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